Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, GO

Research station (GINR) is owned by the Government of Greenland.

Contact

Katrine Raundrup: kara[at]natur.gl

Location

The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources with its main buildings, laboratories, and living quarters is located in Nuuk, Greenland (64°11’ N, 51°41’ W). A research/field station is located in Kobbefjord (64°08’ N, 51°23’ W), c. 25 km southeast of Nuuk.

Website

https://interact-gis.org/Home/Station/73
https://natur.gl/?lang=en

Facilities

GINR was founded in 1995 (preceded by Greenland Fisheries Research; established in 1946), and the main building was inaugurated in 1998. The main building houses c. 3000 m2 of facilities necessary for the Institute’s activities, i.e. offices, laboratories, deep-freeze rooms, storage, conference room, and meeting rooms. Adjacent to the main building is an 850 m2 annex with a large multi-room used for meetings and seminars. Furthermore, the annex has five apartments and eight rooms for visiting researchers, as well as a garage/storage room. GINR has a third building near the city centre of Nuuk with furnished guest rooms for students and visiting scientists. In addition to the buildings in Nuuk, GINR owns two field stations, one in Kobbe­fjord, near Nuuk, and another in Niaqornat, in the Uummannaq area, Northwest Greenland. These field stations function as bases for small research teams and accommodates four people each. GINR owns two research vessels, Sanna and Tarajoq, which are used for scientific investigations in both sheltered and open waters. Also, the institute has several small boats and aluminium dinghies. For transport on land, GINR owns four cars and several snowmobiles.

Availability for access

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Time frame for access preparation

GINR does not require a lot of documentation from their users, so once the users have provided the application form it is pretty much finalized. 
Time frame for logistics arrangements to access the RI:
If users are shipping field equipment to GINR they will have to ship (from Denmark) no later than 4 weeks before they plan to use it in Nuuk. �

Permits, licenses and training

Depends on the work to be carried out. The Government of Greenland requires different applications (to make the permits) if the users collect “genetic material” or “soil/sediments/rocks”, and an ethical board in Greenland will handle applications when the studies are on people. 
GINR recommends that users have updated First Aid training. If they are going to Kobbefjord RI recommends they have had riffle training before arriving (but it is not mandatory).  

Medical guidelines

No medical guidelines.